This week, in The People Behind KDE, yours truly speaks candidly to Tink. "I'm rooting for the KDE League to have some form of impact on the PR scene any time now, but it is quite clear that community involvement is more important than ever. The community can accomplish quite a lot on its own that the KDE League could never do, though there are definitely things (such as mainstream press) best left to the League." Read it all here.

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Forgive my ignorance, but is "Navindra" a man or a woman's name? I had always thought it sounded like a woman's name, but from this Q&A it seems to me that Navindra might be a man (even though it isn't stated anywhere explicitly as far as I can tell).

I looked in the kicker config and all I can find is an auto-hide button that controls kicker itself. If I create, say, an external taskbar and turn on auto-hide, kicker hides but the external taskbar does not.

the functionality you are looking for was committed to CVS just today. i forget who did it, but i saw their CVS commit message; they haven't added the config options to kcontrol yet though i'm sure that will come shortly. =) look for it 2.2.

I would like to complain about KDE not having HINDI Localization. Don't you think that We Indians prefer more American English than our National Language 'Hindi'. KDE fortunately have Tamil but not Devanagari localization. Isn't there a standard Unicode Hindi Font and Localization for KDE? And there is no reply from the Devanagari localization maintainer :( I would have done some good work.

You sound like you could do something about this. If the maintainer is AWOL, then certainly you should be able to take over the task... Are you on the kde-i18n-doc list (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-i18n-doc)?

> Don't you think that We Indians prefer more American English than our National Language 'Hindi'.

I think that is a pretty broad generalization. Some of us do.. however, remember that Hindi isn't terribly standardized in India itself. In fact, many of us know English better than Hindi (one reason English is the associate language of India and used exclusivly in government affairs). I'm a Bengali myself, and I'd rather use English than Hindi. I'd of course love a Bengali translation.

> And there is no reply from the Devanagari localization maintainer :( I would have done some good work.

If he/she doesn't respond after a period of time, you might be able to take it over. Until that time, remember that you do not have to be the maintainer of something to work on it :-).

Actually someone did (some/all) the translations for KDE, but they were not willing to release it , as they wanted to be paid for that work & also sign a commercial agreement with them on its future use.
Since amout was big & their conditions were not metable, so it never got used.

I donot know the person who translated KDE to Hindi. But, I would like to request him to release his works for public use. He/She should not care for money. Everyone will be rewarded. No ones good work goes in vain. I would like to request him that he is an Indian and work for India. We have the greatest computer engineers in the world. It is a matter of shame that Indic computing is not as developed as English computing although, I am not an opponent of English computing. It is our moral responsibility to work for our motherland and culture. We should not be inclined towards the West. We should give our National language the FIRST priority.

Actually someone did (some/all) the translations for KDE, but they were not willing to release it , as they wanted to be paid for that work & also sign a commercial agreement with them on its future use.
Since amout was big & their conditions were not metable, so it never got used.

Indian names don't necessarily follow the same rules as Western ones. For instance, not every name ending with a 'a' would be a feminine name.
Great work Navindra. We back in India look forward to inspiration from people like you. Frederick in Goa.